Annie #3

I quite like the feel of this image but compositionally I'm bothered by one thing. The powers of suggestion being what they are require me to not mention it but I am wondering if others will comment on it. Please critique away....

I like the feel as well, but am bothered somewhat by the empty space in the upper right area and the post coming straight up from behind her head. i think if her head was positioned over a bit more to the right and poked into the empty area it would feel better and remove the vertical right behind her.

Yes: the post. It is the main bothersome piece. I wanted her lines to mimic the railing to her right, which she does. But I should have shifted her a foot or two to the (our) right. That would have solved the post issue and perhaps mitigated to some degree the empty space as well.

Pretty girl, and I do like the background, but the background's geometry does seem to compete with her a bit. I think that this could be changed w/ better lighting though. Was this a long exposure? Seems that the background is sharper than she is, esp around her eyes and nose. :(

personally i would like to see more light on her right side of her face and make make ground a little darker. The railing is too bright, maybe use a reflector and bounse some light.
Your getting there Buddy.

By the way ,your landscape photo are amazing, simple amazing.

the images you are uploading here look very soft, while the ones in flickr look perfect

for this image besides what has been mentioned , I think her left leg extended towards he camera is odd, perhaps crop right below her hands ?

Thanks for the comments and critiques. There are some good take-aways here so I appreciate it. I did soften this one as well, though not selectively. It seemed to work for me with this (and other images) though I understand that it does not appeal to all. The images I upload here are smaller than what I upload on Flickr (much less my commercial site: http://www.perfectlightstudios.com/annie) so maybe that fact is accentuating the softening.

I agree that the balusters/railing are too bright. The exposure was not long at all: hand held and I did have a reflector to her right to open up the non-light source side of her face.

good study piece: I've learned a lot